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Sep 08, 2010 17:44

So, after seeing the movie last month (which was excellent), I decided to read the original graphic novels from which Scott Pilgrim was spawned ( Read more... )

geeky, comics, books, movies

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rikoshi September 9 2010, 01:42:03 UTC
Yeah, I mean, the movie and the final graphic novel were released within a few weeks of each other, so things had to have been in the can well before, so to speak.

It's not so much the events of the ending that I had issue with as much as the pacing and the way it was all explained. Again, not that it was bad; just that it wasn't as good as all the rest.

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darklingthrush September 9 2010, 08:05:37 UTC
Yeah, the movie is basically an abridged version that keeps all the action and all the goofy one-liners (and adds an hefty handful of additional punny groaners) and cuts about 40% of the cast and 60% of the character development.

Which, honestly, for a six-book-to-112-minute-film conversion, is pretty good!

A number of scenes also inevitably came across as cheezier in live-action format because there are just some things you can get away with more easily in text/comic form. Speaking a line aloud subjects it to stricter scrutiny in general, I think.

But glad to hear you liked the books (issues with the ending notwithstanding)!

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rikoshi September 9 2010, 17:36:51 UTC
I will say that the resolution to things between Scott and Knives is one of the most amazing moments ever.

Not just in the series, but ever.

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ruadh September 9 2010, 12:31:23 UTC
Someone who agrees with me on the ending of the Scott Pilgrim books!

Actually, most everyone in my house agrees, so it's not that rare. I thought the endings were fine, but as you said, not up to the rest of the standard that was set.

The movie was great, though 'abridged'.

Also, be afraid. I just bought your second(?) book at that european con I went to and caught SARS from. I shall read it when I have recovered.

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kandrel September 10 2010, 08:14:37 UTC
Don't believe him. He only suffered for a few days from a common cold. Everyone else he came into contact with has since come down with the martian death plague.

Typhoid Ruadh!

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